649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control.

You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness. The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears.

I thought I was killing myself and I did not care.

Bless my soul alive!

I’ve never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me. It’s so with everyone.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable – but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have yet to be.

I feel to think, he thinks to feel. It is I and my kind that have the wider range, because we can be impersonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves.

And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.